What book actually changed how you think and how you see the world, whether it was fiction or philosophy?
Pic unrelated.
My views as to the extent of what can be done with berries was radically changed by Redwall, if that counts
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Lol le Death worship
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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. Read it after high school and realized how safe and cushioned everything I had been reading before was.
I wrote an essay on that painting in first year.
I had to pick a bunch of things in the painting and come up with historical hypotheses about them, and then justify the hypotheses with minor research I think.
I thought I was a real smart fuckin' dude for slowly realising that the medieval Dance of Death was a precursor of the vanitas theme. Like, for about an afternoon, I thought I had independently discovered this.
Some anon said that "The last hours of ancient sunlight" is mindblowing, what do you think?
gravity's rainbow, as i've posted before
started or coincided with a gradual shift leftward and towards a more humanistic worldview